Just when you think you know what’s going to happen next – the schedule changes!

We’d resigned ourselves to a couple of weeks approval time for our building permit but it turned around in less than a week. The approved plans and permit were then forwarded to the bank to confirm that funds were available for the builder. This morning I got the email we’ve been waiting for.

Handover to construction – Lot 268, 12 Wagtail Ave, Torquay

Looking back on this website I know that we first identified a suitable block of land in November 2015. It’s been a long haul, waiting on civil works to be completed, land to title and then confirming our home design is suitable.

While you continue to tell yourself that you’re finished ‘tweaking’ the design and the last round of documents signed are indeed the final documents there’s always some more ‘final steps’ to be carried out the following week. Well, apparently this week we’ve reached the final steps in client approval. We signed all of the construction documentation so that it can be submitted to council and subject to approval, these documents will be used by the various tradies involved to build our new home.

Next steps are as follows:

Plan submitted to council for building permit approval (estimated 2 weeks)

Builder starts onsite (after council approval is given the builder will be onsite within 14 working days – 3 weeks)

Level the site

Start preparing for slab foundations

With August now flying past it’s looking more like an September start.

Latest odds for construction start

Further changes in the betting this week.

August Start: 50-1

September Start: 2-1 fav

October Start: 50-1

Sorry for the punters who loaded up on the August start. You should have made a bet when I was offering 150-1 for September. As I’ve said before, everything takes longer than expected…